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Digging up the Truth

Mercedes Doretti has spent her life uncovering mass graves around the world.

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Soviet Woman Bomber Pilot

Yelena Malyutina was a Soviet female bomber pilot who fought in WW2.

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Wangari Maathai Wins Nobel Prize

In 2004, the Kenyan ecologist became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize

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Recreating Down Syndrome in Mice

Scientist Elizabeth Fisher created a new strain of mouse to help understand Down Syndrome

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Fighting for Rural Women in South Africa

Sizani Ngubane set up the Rural Women's Movement in South Africa in the 1990s

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Yoyes - Woman leader of ETA

The life and tragic death of the first woman leader of the Basque separatist group ETA.

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Sara Ginaite Lithuanian Jewish Partisan

A young Jewish woman escaped from the Kaunas Ghetto in Lithuania to fight the Nazis.

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The Hindu 'Milk Miracle'

Millions of Hindus were gripped by reports of their God, Ganesha, 'drinking' milk.

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Cot Death

The 'Back to Sleep' campaign was launched in 1991 to prevent babies dying in their cots

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The First Latin American 'Telenovela'

Brazil's Vida Alves starred in the first ever Latin American soap opera in December 1951.

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Death of an Anarchist

Giuseppe Pinelli was an Italian anarchist who died in police custody - but why?

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Derek Jarman

The experimental film-maker made his first feature film 'Sebastiane' in 1976.

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Turkey-Greece Island Dispute

How Greece and Turkey almost came to war over a tiny rocky island in the Aegean sea.

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Samuel Beckett

The great Irish playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett died on 22nd December 1989

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Apollo 8

How the first mission around the Moon captured the world's imagination at Christmas 1968

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The Break-Up of the Soviet Union

Hear from two of the key players who brought to an end over 70 years of communism

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Georgia In Crisis

After the breakup of the Soviet Union, Georgia found itself on the verge of civil war.

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The Nuclear Legacy

The story of how the world was made safe from the former Soviet Union's nuclear legacy

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The Launch of Vogue Russia

Aliona Doletskaya remembers starting post Soviet-Russia's biggest glossy fashion magazine

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Russia's 'Dog Man'

How conceptual artist Oleg Kulik posed as a dog, attacking passers-by in Moscow.

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America's First Communists

Husband and wife Bert and Ella Wolfe faced persecution in the movement's early years

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Vietnam War: The Cu Chi Tunnels

A Vietnamese war veteran on life in the Viet Cong's tunnel network in South Vietnam

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Charter 77

In January 1977 an opposition movement began in Soviet-era Czechoslovakia.

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Albania's Economic Chaos

How the collapse of 'pyramid' investment schemes caused riots in Albania in 1977

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Death in the Amazon

Auca tribesmen killed five American missionaries in the jungle in January 1956.

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Turkey's Headscarf Row

In 1999 a Turkish woman MP appeared in parliament wearing a headscarf. It caused uproar.

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The Zimmermann Telegram

How British code-breakers exposed a German plot against the United States in 1917

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Chicago's Police Torture

A victim of abuse at the hands of the Chicago police tells his story.

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Princess Diana's Minefield Walk

How Britain's most famous Royal brought the danger landmines to the world's attention.

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US Presidential Transitions

What exactly goes on during the months between election and inauguration?

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